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Barlcay Street Real Estate recently forecast that new developments could push downtown office vacancy rates up to 24 per cent in 2018, and office vacancy rates in the adjacent Beltline neighbourhood could climb to 19.6 per cent over the same period. The vacancy issue has driven down prices for tenants — “There’s never been a better time to look at space than right now,” Barclay Street associate Bill Falagaris said — but has forced developers to reconsider projects that are planned, and completion dates for office buildings that are already under construction.

Calgary's industrial sector showing signs of strain. Report by Barclay Street Real Estate noted market dynamics in Calgary industrial scene are currently in favour of the tenant or purchaser, with sublease options being marketed at aggressive rates.

Near-empty skyscrapers and rising vacancy rates are pressuring landlords to offer big incentives – such as a year of free rent or money for renovations – to keep a shrinking number of tenants in their downtown Calgary towers.

The retail vacancy in the core business districts of Calgary can largely be attributed to increased office vacancy rates as well as a general slowdown in our oil-based economy here,” said Nathaniel Sterzik, leasing and sales associate for Barclay Street Real Estate, which just released its mid-year retail market analysis for the city.

Total commercial real estate investments in the city plunged $1.1 billion from 2014 to 2015, ac-cording to research by Barclay Street Real Estate, which tallied total dollar volume last year at $1.5 billion.

A new report says Calgary’s downtown offices got a bit emptier in the first three months of the year as vacancies rose 2.2 percentage points from last quarter. The Barclay Street Real Estate Ltd. report says vacancies rose to 19.5 per cent as about 938,000 more square feet were on the market. It said by 2018 the vacancy rate could be close to 24 per cent.